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upon them: They deſigned to put him in ſome hole, and cover him with heather, he not being able to run hard, by reaſon of his age, he deſired them to forbear a little until he prayed, where he ſaid, "Lord, we are ever needing at thy hand; and if we had not thy command to call on thee in the day of trouble, and thy promiſe of anſwering us in the day of our diſtreſs, we wot not what would become of ye: If thou haſt any more work for us in the world, allow us the lap of thy cloak this day again. And if this be the day of our going off the ſtage, let us win honeſtly off, and comfortably through, and our ſouls will ſing forth thy praiſes thro' eternity, for what thou haſt done to us and for us "When ended, he ran alone a little, and came quickly back, ſaying, "Lads, the bitterneſs of this blaſt is over, we will be no more troubled with them to-day." Foot and horſe came the length of Andrew Clark's, in Achengrooch, where they were covered with a dark miſt: When they ſaw it, they roared like fleshly devils, and cried out; "There is the confounded miſt again! we cannot get theſe damned whigs purſued for it." I had this account from the ſaid Captain John Matthiſon.
35. About this time he was in a houſe in the ſhire of Ayr (James Niſbet, yet living in the Caſtle of Edinburgh, can bear witneſs to the truth of this) and one night he was ſtanding before the fire, where he uttered ſome imprecations upon the curſed intelligencers, who had told the enemy that he was come out of Ireland. When James took him to the place where he was to reſt a little, James ſaid, "The ſervants took notice of your imprecations upon the intelligencers." He ſaid, Ye will know to-morrow, about nine o'clock, what ground I have for it. I wiſh thy head may be preſerved, for it will be in danger for me; I will take my own time, and be gone from this houſe." Some time that night, he went to a deſert place, and darned himſelf in a moſs-hag. The next morning, James was going at the harrows, and about eight of the clock there was a troop of the
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